THEIST_WATCH
Msg : 56 Written : 08/02/94 03:46pm
From : ROBIN MURRAY-O'HAIR Status :
To : ALL
Subj : Super-Demons in Romania
Serpents, Scorpions, and Super-Demons
Central Europe is hardly the place for spooks and religious
sophistry. After all, Bucharest, Romania, has a long history of
literature, arts, education, and science. But it also houses, now, an
eighty-seven-year-old Romanian nut who is a priest in the Romanian
Orthodox Church. That church has the temerity to designed the priest as
one of its "chosen confessors."
On July 30, he apparently invited the media and the citizenry of
the city to watch him exorcise demons from what he called "a possessed
woman" in the courtyard of the Bucharest Darvari monastery. And
hundreds of persons obliged.
The priest has been raging against "forty years of no religion
taught in [public] schools" which has resulted in "50 percent of
Romanians" turning to "witchcraft."
In regard to the "possessed woman" he explained the existence of
"three types of demons - serpents, scorpions and master demons" and
lectured that they could be "vanquished solely by prayers and
fast(ing)."
News reports did not carry any pictures or information concerned
with the "serpents, scorpions and master demons" exorcised from the
woman.
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